WordPress.com Enterprise is Live

Today marks a new era for high-profile websites on WordPress.com.

In a world of social networks and flash hits the compromises of legacy hosting aren’t good enough anymore. You need to be able to create a bespoke site in a day, have it work great on desktop and touch devices, be bullet-proof secure, and scale to the occasion when the world shows up at your door. As the saying used to go: fast, cheap, good — pick two.

“When we created The 4-Hour Chef website, we wanted a custom, mobile-ready design that would be able to handle a lot of traffic,” said Tim Ferriss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body.

“With WordPress.com Enterprise and the support of the team at Automattic, we got the site up and running quickly with all of the features we were looking for.”

Now you can pick three. We’re announcing a new platform, WordPress.com Enterprise, that brings the best of WordPress.com: all of our paid upgrades, including premium themes and Custom Design, and the best of all the built-in WordPress.com VIP features such as 70+ vetted plugins which include integrations with top partners such as Flipboard, Chartbeat, and Facebook.

To top it off, you also get our new Javascript customization service that allows you the flexibility to customize your site without needing to touch the underlying PHP code. You can tweak and personalize to your heart’s content.

Sign up and you can launch your site within minutes and scale your traffic on our cloud, which delivers 100s of millions of pageviews/day.

We’ve had the pleasure of working with a few beta customers as we’ve ramped up, and they are great examples of what you can do with Enterprise: Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Chef, ESPN’s Digital and Print Products, Soleil Moon Frye’s Moonfrye.com, and The Crosby Press from JackThreads.

WordPress.com Enterprise will scale with you as your site goes viral, gets picked up by a big media outlet, or grows in popularity. Enjoy unlimited traffic, bandwidth, and storage, plus top-notch support, all for $500/month per site.

Get started today! Sign up for WordPress.com Enterprise for your next site.

Take a closer look at WordPress.com Enterprise below.

Getting started with WordPress.com Enterprise:

The WordPress.com Enterprise Dashboard:

Some of the 70+ WordPress.com VIP Plugins available to WordPress.com Enterprise users:

Learn more about WordPress.com Enterprise for your next site.

Metro UK migrates to WordPress!

A hearty welcome to Metro.co.uk, home of the UK’s 3rd most-read national newspaper! The site migrated over from a custom CMS into WordPress.com VIP Hosting. The site was also given a design refresh and their mobile experience was created from the ground-up so that readers with any device will get a fluid experience. Pull out your device, and give the site a swipe to move through continually updated stories and images.

Read Metro.co.uk’s announcement about the revamped website running right here on WordPress.com VIP Hosting. Visit Metro.co.uk.

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Los Angeles Times Media Kit on WordPress

The LA Times has just launched a site from their Media Group, Media Kit, aimed towards advertisers. The site, running on WordPress, walks potential advertisers through the process of gathering information and planning an advertisement with the Los Angeles Times.

The LA Times also has two blogs on WordPress.com VIP – their popular Framework and Hero Complex sites.

[Visit the LA Times Media Kit site]

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NYC VIP Party – Thank You!

To those of you who were able to join us last Thursday in NYC for the VIP Happy Hour, I wanted to extend a hearty thank you – we really enjoyed seeing so many of you there! We had about 120 attendees, ate some delicious chocolate fondue and enjoyed the beautiful courtyard space at the Hudson Hotel. We’re really looking forward to our next VIP Happy Hour – in London next February (more details on this soon…).

If you have ideas for future events that you’d like to see us host or sponsor (both social or professional welcome!), please get in touch. We really enjoy bringing everyone together and we’re looking forward to some awesome events in 2013.

Etsy’s behind-the-scenes blog, Code as Craft, on WordPress.com VIP

Etsy had a record-breaking weekend between Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year, and their network continues to grow!

On their site Code as Craft, hosted here at WordPress.com VIP, their engineers take a deeper look at what it takes to run such a successful network and system architecture, and discuss a wide range of topics from performance to user security. [Visit Etsy's Code as Craft] Ready to become a VIP Services Client? Some of the world’s biggest brands rely on WordPress.com VIP Services.

WordPress at LeWeb in Paris, France

Will you be at the LeWeb conference in Paris, France, December 4-6th? 

On December 6th at 14:15 CET, WordPress co-founding developer and Automattic President Matt Mullenweg will be on the main stage with Om Malik from GigaOm interviewing. The talk may be shown in streaming, but that is to be confirmed. You can follow @WordPressVIP to stay updated on the day and let us know your thoughts, too!

If you’re attending LeWeb and will be at Les Docks those days, make sure to stop by the booth where we’ll chat with you about the latest news and developments in the WordPress project and community, and we’ll have some swag to give away, too!

For more info: LeWeb.co

NESN.com launches on WordPress.com VIP

The New England Sports Network has launched right here on WordPress.com VIP! The regional network is owned by the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins and delivered to over 4 million homes throughout the six-state New England region and nationally as NESN National.

The definitive source for New England sports programming, NESN has consistently been one of the top rated regional sports network in the country and was the first regional sports network in the country to originate every game and studio show in high definition. Their site is constantly updated and has a special theme for mobile content access as well.

[Visit NESN.com]

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